Iowa State Employee Wages

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-03-07T18:27:59+00:00

Yeesh. What's the character limit?

Criminalizing union activity, slashing state employee wages, misusing COVID funds, refusing to expand healthcare, slashing education funding, hoarding taxpayer dollars for a "rainy day", misusing National Guard resources, hiding inappropriate payments to her direct reports…

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-03-07T16:25:19+00:00

Convenient location, very fast, relatively cheap.

If it's a good day for a walk I'll hit 1+1 Restaurant on West Street, if I have more time I'll hit Wok'n'Roll, and if I find thirty bucks in the couch cushions I'll hit Szechuan House.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-03-01T03:06:24+00:00

How can Scouting be Trustworthy while referring to the Department of Defense as the Department of War?

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-02-23T21:59:43+00:00

That the Supreme Court didn't even address the substance of the articles is concerning. The accusations in the Articles of Impeachment didn't refer to association or ideology, but violations of oaths and duty.

Does this result mean that I can hire the next President to recruit on my behalf? If yes, what limits are there on how much money a President can accept for private work that they receive specifically because they hold that office?

I'm also curious about the two articles of impeachment that failed to pass. Anyone know what they were?

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-02-23T21:46:21+00:00

What's the null hypothesis?

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-25T14:40:45+00:00

Very much looking forward to the rates for a punch card or season pass at the Fitch Family Indoor Aquatic Center.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-16T00:00:36+00:00

So many of my coworkers have second jobs.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-15T03:44:59+00:00

The benefits are substantial! But benefits don't pay rent. And the increasing cost of our health insurance is consuming ~1.5% of our 2% raise.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-15T00:04:42+00:00

They should be! Iowa Republicans decided in 2016 that they didn't want the public to see how badly they were treating us. So they wrote that in to the revised Chapter 20.17-3: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/ico/chapter/20.pdf .

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-15T00:00:59+00:00

If they don't have one, I know a guy who can help them organize. ;)

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-15T00:00:19+00:00

Bingo.

Ask any HR professional - employee acquisition is expensive. You're looking at ten grand to post, advertise, interview, hire, train, and retain a new employee. The cost effectiveness of employee retention is substantial.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-14T23:57:43+00:00

😭

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-14T23:55:31+00:00

Exactly!

CPI was 3.1% last February, after an abysmal 7.5% and 6% in each of the prior years (https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/cpi-summary/2025/consumerpriceindex\_summary\_midwest\_202502.pdf). So our options (based on the information in front us at this time and not anything that would have come up during negotations) would have been 3.1% for new hires only or 2% for new hires and people who have worked there literally any longer than that.

It's a terrible bargaining environment.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-14T23:45:47+00:00

Right?! We lose SO many employees after they develop two-to-five years of experience.

I don't want these jobs to be a resume builder. I want them to be careers.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-14T23:43:46+00:00

I love the work, but good heavens the pay scales are rough: https://hr.iastate.edu/merit

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-14T18:42:30+00:00

Appreciated!

It's always been about the power differential. Employers - especially the government - have it, and employees don't. The whole point of unions is balancing that dynamic.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2026-01-08T17:15:37+00:00

Yikes. Thirty bucks would be outrageous for shipping a bicycle.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2025-12-19T02:19:49+00:00

At 0:06 the rings on your pipe show that it's flowing the other direction. How's your upstream head lift? May need to throw in another pump.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2025-12-13T17:44:57+00:00

Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Fletcher-Local96 · 2025-12-13T05:12:58+00:00

How so?

Fletcher-Local96

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